Episode 202: Why Food Matters, Blood Sugar Balance and Creating Healthy Habits for Teens and Tweens

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Are you a teen or tween-ager looking to take control of your health? Perhaps you are a parent wanting to start your teen or tween off on the right foot when it comes to applying food as medicine? Want practical solutions for addressing energy, screen time, and blood sugar balance? Tune in to this special episode where Ali and Becki address teens and tweens directly and provide a 101 level introduction to our functional medicine approach! In this episode, we cover everything we wish we knew about health when we were teenagers! From balancing blood sugar and reading food labels to navigating dining out to optimizing athletic performance, this episode will help to empower you with direct solutions to feel your best in your body. Plus learn about best supplements for supporting optimal wellness, growth and development and get some tasty recipe inspiration for quick grab breakfasts, lunches and snacks appropriate for any age or life stage! Also in this Episode: Naturally Nourished Youtube Channel What is Food As Medicine and Why Does it Matter? How Many Carbs Are Too Many? Best Breakfast OptionsOvernight Oats - Naturally Nourished Cookbook Mikey’s Muffins Caramelized Onion & Turkey Egg Muffins Pizza Egg Muffins Blueberry Banana Almond Flour Muffins Smoothies Mango Coconut Chia Pudding School LunchesBest Bars: RX Bar, Rise Bar, Perfect Bar on our Amazon Store Best Meat Sticks: Chomps & Nix Sticks on our Amazon Store School Lunches Blog Greek Yogurt Ranch Dip Best Salty Crunchy Snacks: Simple Mills Crackers, Jackson’s Honest Chips on our Amazon Store Is Fat Free healthy? Should I go Vegetarian? Essential Supplements for Teens and TweensMultidefense with Iron for girls Multidefense without Iron for dudes Restore Baseline Probiotic B-12 Boost Why do I need to limit my screen time? Blueblocker Glasses Which energy drink is the best?Banana Bolt Shake What do I need to optimize my sports performance?Collagen and Gelatin Inflammazyme Grassfed Whey Protein Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by Wild Foods, a company that puts quality, sustainability, and health first in all of their products. They have everything from coffee to turmeric to medicinal mushrooms, and every single product is painstakingly sourced from small farms around the globe. They take their mission seriously to fix the broken food system, and believe real food is medicine. They've partnered with us to give you guys an exclusive discount, so use the code ALIMILLERRD for 12% off your order at WildFoods.co! This episode is also sponsored by Santa Cruz Medicinals, makers of potent and affordable CBD with effective dosing. For more information check out www.scmedicinals.com and use code ALIMILLERRD for 15% off your order.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.8	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes
0:18.3	for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes
0:35.1	only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host, Becky You.
0:44.8	Welcome to episode 202 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast. Today, we are shaking things up a little bit,
0:51.8	and we'll be gearing our episode toward our teen and tween
0:56.4	audience. This has just been such a big request, I think, for many listeners who have a teenager
1:02.6	at home and I think such a needed topic. So we'll really be diving into kind of all the things
1:09.4	that we wish someone had told us about our health
1:13.1	when we were teenagers. Yes, so much easier to be proactive than reactive and find yourself
1:19.8	in your early 30s trying to pick up the mess. Yes. When you started to unfurl from, you know,
1:27.1	your teens on.
1:28.5	And so this episode is going to be geared towards those, you know, anywhere age 10 through 18,
1:34.3	it could be appropriate for a little bit younger, a little bit older,
1:37.1	but we're going to be laying out things in a preliminary level.
1:41.2	So this is like a 101 level of why food matters. We're going to be covering how to move
1:48.0	your body in a healthy way, the importance of exercise and exercise recovery. We're going to be
1:53.4	covering a little bit of screen time recommendations and the influence of that on your brain
1:58.4	chemistry, as well as how to eat to maintain optimal body composition,
2:04.9	healthy, clear skin, optimal energy, get good grades,
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